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You can’t list more than 6 in Featured images. Leo experimented with a larger number but ran into problems (which I don’t recall the details of) and went back to 6.
You can however do all sorts of things to make your own collections of your images. See the discussion here:
http://www.symbiostock.org/topic/432/using-text-widget-to-show-thumbs-linked-to-categories/
I use Photoshop, but I just checked Bridge and the names for the fields are the same – Title and Description (shorter in the title; more detailed in the description)
See an earlier discussion about using the Symbiostock logo and concerns about it looking too similar to the sig runes of the SS
http://www.symbiostock.org/topic/39/use-of-symbiostock-logo/
The resolution I came to was to use the intertwined SS with the word symbiostock, not the SS alone.
I guess we need to make some decisions about colors, and I’d like to advocate that we permit alternate color choices rather than just the blue/green and monochrome.
I think that a coherent look for a site and its design is very important given the visual business we’re in. Unless we enforce that everyone’s logos have to be blue/green, those colors are very strong and will clash with many other site logos. I find things with a jumble of too many colors and no apparent thought to a color palette pretty hard to look at.
If Cathy’s site (just to pick an example) put the Symbiostock logo on the front page in the blue green, IMO it would look awful with her orange/navy color scheme. And I think that if she were to add the SS logo to the “part of the symbiostock network” text she already has – in orange/navy – it would (a) fit in well and (b) be instantly recognizable as part of the network.
This seems to go back to the very loose nature of the association among Symbiostock sites – I would like to see the Symbiostock logo on the front page of all the sites, but I can’t see how that can happen if we insist on a set of colors.
I would not have put the logo on my site in the original colors (and monochrome would probably fly in any event as it’s so common for people to have a monochrome version of a color logo given press or photocopying requirements)
And here’s the zip with the Branding stuff from GitHub
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/12956972/SymbiostockLogos.zip
Welcome.
I see you only get 10 images per page instead of 24 in searches or category listings. It’s a bug, but you can work around it temporarily by deactivating the Symbiostock cart manager
I have it – I think because it came with the premium plugin. It’s what gets submitted to Google for indexing and my files are getting indexed. My site’s ranking is climbing.
I’m completely ignorant of SEO, so although the above seems to be reason to be happy, I could just be a woefully ignorant bunny 🙂
I think you should use PostScript v 3 as you’ll lose too much with version 2
http://www.istockphoto.com/article_view.php?ID=156
Some history
No reason you can’t have your strawberry and the Symbiostock logo. Possibly even a red/gray version of the logo to make some combo of the strawberry and the logo work visually?
Leo had OK’d me making a monochrome logo for use on my site, so I don’t think other color changes to fit logos would be a problem.
It has the Symbiostock logo now (I have no recollection if it was there before or not!).
I think it’d be great to have it given a slick look, but that’s Andrzej’s baby, so perhaps ask him?
@shelma1 wrote:
I changed the look of the header to mesh more with Symbiostock.net. I think it’s cleaner and has more impact. Hope everyone’s OK with that.
More than OK – I think it looks really good!
Here are Shutterstock’s guidelines
http://www.shutterstock.com/buzz/vectors/saving-your-vector-illustrations-using-adobe-illustrator
And their blog post about having only a single color profile
http://www.shutterstock.com/buzz/rejection-reasons/color-profiles-in-vectors
iStock’s rules
including notes about stray shapes outside the artboard
And their rules on custom fills
I like skwabels much better, but it’s squabbles 🙂
I don’t disagree with anything you said, but I was wondering if there was something specific that made you post on this topic at this moment.
Was it the discussion around crapstock.com?
I would like it if I could control the video playing back – a pause/play button. At some point the playback got very very slow – almost like slow motion – but once I’ve seen it play through once, I don’t need it to repeat. I’d prefer not to have two things to look at – still and video – but I’m assuming that’s just there because you’re testing things.
If speed is going to be an issue, your video preview seems quite a bit larger than other sites’ previews. Can you make it smaller easily?
I also assume that you’ll provide specifics of format on the finished pages
You realize you’ll become the video guru for Symbiostock if you get this all working beautifully 🙂
Thanks for posting that.
Having looked at the code, and briefly thought about modifying the two fontawesome files to remove just the icons I didn’t want, I think the right thing to do (which I’m not planning to do right away but might at some point) is to modify the various symbiostock php files that write headers with these icons.
The modification would be that you call a function with an icon name as a parameter. There would be a preference for icons on or off and the code that displays all the headings wouldn’t need to know if the icons were to be displayed or not. That would at least centralize icon handling in one place. It would also allow the font files to be there for other uses even though they weren’t cluttering up headlines any more.
I quite like the use of the cart icon in the menu and on the customer download page, but other than that, I would dump the lot. I don’t think they clarify or are visually all that awesome. But to each his own 🙂
For the moment I’m going to learn to live with them
@Snap Vectors wrote:
…I noticed that the corners on your search bar and button are square. Is that any easy thing to modify in the CSS?
Yes. See this for the complete mods
http://www.symbiostock.org/post/4860/#p4860
But you want to change the border radius to 0px for the various containers, panels and fields. For CleanTheme, you’ll probably want to put this in via the Appearance -> Edit CSS editor and you may need to add some classes if something is missed
/* Generally we avoid border-radius in the Dragonfly theme */
.btn, .well, .panel, .panel-heading, .thumb, .thumbnail, img, input{
-webkit-border-radius: 0px !important;
-moz-border-radius: 0px !important;
-o-border-radius: 0px !important;
border-radius: 0px !important;
}
